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 Posted: Thu May 9th, 2013 01:41 pm
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Joe Kelley

 

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 An idea occurs to me concerning the invention called an LD, or Lie Detector, and the concept could be based upon Sortion, also known as "The Wisdom of Crowds," were this invention merely works as a Search Engine, and the words spoken are calculated through an elaborate program, and there is a grade given to the words spoken on a scale.

The program/search engine/feedback/display moves along while two people may be speaking to each other, and there are then two displays measured as accurate on one end of the scale and inaccurate on the other end of the scale.

It occurs to me that there could even be a second scale that works as an indicator of reliability, or tolerance, as in machine work, where the second scale shows a reinforcing level of accuracy to the first scale, along the lines of how Personality Tests can be tested for accuracy when the Personality Test is designed to test honesty.

So a conversation can be recorded, run through the LD device, and the first scale for Person A may read neutral while Person A is speaking about nothing having to do with anything, such as speaking randomly, baby talk, gibberish, or speaking in an language not recognized by the program software. The second scale may go fully to the high percentage of error side of the scale, furthest away from any measure of accuracy, since the information received is meaningless according to the software.

Then Person B asks a question, such as "Isn't it a nice day"?

Note: Where do I put the question mark relative to the quotation mark?

Having no context, no information before or after that one question, would be relatively insignificant on an accuracy scale, and having only gibberish in context is roughly the same condition of having nothing relative to measure along side of, or in context with, but the idea here includes a program that measures general opinions of what is, or is not nice, so the location may be a known location, and the day may include a hurricane force of weather currently destroying lives and things, so an answer of "Yes, it is a nice day." could move the LD display toward inaccuracy, and the tolerance of error could move toward higher probability of precise information.

Now, in context, such a device could be understood as being more, or less, lethal to Criminals as would be the Universal Defensive Weapon, or UDW, device when considering the POWER of deception.

Idle conversation about weather among two friends in a semi-private (so called) conversation can be compared with a room full of people assembled to judge what a few candidates for public (so called) office have to say as the candidates compete to gain moral/psychological/political and material/physical/economic support.